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Johns Hopkins gets $100 million pledge

May 07, 2001|By Items compiled from Tribune news services.

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND — Johns Hopkins University announced Sunday that an anonymous donor has pledged $100 million to the school to create an institute devoted to finding a new vaccine and treatment for malaria.

This is one of the largest gifts to a university designated for a single purpose--in this case, to battle a disease that kills more than a million people every year.

Hopkins officials had talked to the donor about the general need for new classroom and laboratory space on their Baltimore campuses. But the publicity-shy philanthropist had loftier aims, said Alfred Sommer, dean of the university's public health school.